Stormi Boyd, CMP, CMMDirector, Professional ServicesRed Velvet EventsAustin, Texas
My Device: iPad
My Job: “95 percent of my job is meeting planning. I support a team of planners doing big events.”
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Robin Preston, CEM
Assistant Executive DirectorConference, Meetings &
Database ManagementNational School Boards Association
Robin Preston, CEM, National School Boards Association
My Job: “I oversee the co...
Here's a collection of apps for work and life that planners are using right now. But apps often change and new apps get launched, so we'd love your help in keeping this a lively list. Add your app faves—or note any...
Financial & Insurance Conference Planners drew a record number of attendees to the 2014 FICP Education Forum in New Orleans June 18–20. More than 225 attendees, including 74 planners, spent the time...
Planners got conservative with bookings during the recession, but the recovery is here, and “everyone is blowing through their room blocks,” said Mike Dominguez, senior vice president, corporate hotel...
It’s always refreshing to listen to a keynote speaker who’s a straight shooter—maybe even more so these days, surrounded as we all are by spin and buzzwords. Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré (Ret.), therefore, was just what th...
Meeting planners know that one of the more common complaints on education session evaluation forms is that a session “wasn’t what I expected.” It’s highly unlikely that any of the attendees at the Financial & Ins...
More than 200 attendees, including 74 planners, have arrived at The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans, for the 2014 Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum. They’re enjoying a warm (well, hot) welcome from ...
The Tokyo Convention and Visitors Bureau has joined the BestCities Global Alliance as its first partner from Northeast Asia and the first to go through the new Regional Affiliate Member program. RAM was introduced so...
Cheryl Trinidad likes to try new things with meetings. “No risk, no reward,” says Trinidad, who has a way of making the cliché sound fresh and fun. Which could be because we’re catching her at what she considers the ...
